Starship Asterisk*

sundogs

Bubble Nebula Region
http://www.skytrip.de
Copyright: Mario Weigand
http://www.skytrip.de/deepsky/ngc7635-2013-10-01c.jpg Full resolution

cheers

Mario

bystander wrote:

Maurizio wrote:Hello I am an Italian photographer, and 'the first time in this forum, I would like to participate in apod, and' this is the right situation?

Yes, this is exactly where you want to be! Nice pic! Welcome aboard and thanks for sharing!

Very well, my name is Maurizio Pignotti, are an expert on landscape photography at night, take a look here ':)

http://www.mauriziopignotti.com

Rural Milky Way, not far from Budapest.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zpavel
Copyright: Zoltán Pável

California Nebula
Copyright: Jacek Bobowik
http://www.astrofotki.pl Larger Image: http://astrofotki.pl/NGC1499_HaRGB.jpg

Copyright: Vladimir Rau
http://www.ried-sternwarte.de/index.html http://www.ried-sternwarte.de/ngc6888-1

NGC 7293 the Helix nebula
http://coatesastrophotography.com/
Copyright: Steve Coates
NGC 7293 the Helix nebula
Constellation Aquarius
~700 light years distant
Ha 20min subs totaling 1 hour and 20 minutes.
OIII 20 min subs totaling 2 hours.
QSI 683 wsg-8
Losmandy g11 Gemini II
AT8RC
Taken September 26 and October 5, 2013
http://coatesastrophotography.com/p6600 ... #h79bba7e7

Sadr Area
Copyright: Salvatore Spinoso & Roberto Colombari

IC 59 and 63 - Nebulae in Cassiopeia
http://www.feraphotography.com/AM14/pics/IC59cBig.jpg Copyright: Bob and Janice Fera
Link: http://www.feraphotography.com/AM14/IC59.html

New data for comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) on October 04, 2013 with the 2-meter Liverpool Telescope Copyright: Ernesto Guido, Nick Howes & Martino Nicolini
Link: http://bit.ly/16guvWO

Lagoon Nebula
http://ryanhannahoe.nmskies.com/wp-cont ... -large.jpg Located in the constellation of Sagittarius, the Lagoon Nebula may be one of the most widely observed objects in the nighttime sky. To the unaided eye it appears as a faint patch of cloud that is buried amongst a sea of stars. This emission nebula resides 5,800 light-years away from Earth, and is a very well known region of stellar birth. This area is 3 to 4 times more fruitful in massive star production than other regions.
Copyright: Ryan M. Hannahoe & Salvatore Grasso
Link: http://ryanhannahoe.nmskies.com/?p=665

ISON
Copyright: Ian Sharp

Comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy)
Copyright: Ian Sharp

Comet ISON C/2012 S1 On October 6th, 08:51-09:27ut. (36min. total Exp.) Two Galaxies are visible Lower Left image (neg.) They are PGC 1509685 and (top R) PGC 28008. (croped at the edges-Stacking only). Equipment info on image.

moon, mercury (left) and saturn

A Fair Trade
Copyright: Brad Goldpaint
http://goldpaintphotography.com

Buffalo Gap Milky Way - An October Blizzard left some snow on the Badlands, in Buffalo Gap National Grassland, outside of Badlands National Park.
http://www.facebook.com/dakotalapse
http://www.dakotalapse.com

M45
Copyright: Wolfgang Promper
http://www.astro-pics.com/45-npm.jpg http://www.astro-pics.com/45npm.htm

M31
Copyright: Wolfgang Promper
http://www.astro-pics.com/31npm.jpg http://www.astro-pics.com/31npm.htm

Copyright: Mike Sidonio
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3736/1013 ... 7fc6_h.jpg Believed to be the stellar remains of a smaller galaxy that passed through the inner regions of NGC 1097 in the distant past

See more here: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ ... _in_fornax

Leica Telyt-R 180mm f/3.4
CentralDS EOS 60Da
Sky-Watcher EQ3 Synscan
Astronomik EOS Clip Filter: UHC
08 novembre 2012
10x480"
Copyright Alessandro Milani http://fotodistelle.it/nebulosa-cuore-nebulosa-anima/

The Great Carina Nebula


Carina Nebula NGC3372 by SpaceN00b, on Flickr

highres:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/56673/D/?

Full res:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/56673/D/?real=&mod=


Chris Marklew

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3667/1014 ... 1273_o.jpg WIde field view of NGC1333. I took this from dark skies this past weekend.

vdB152, B175, DeHt5
http://blog.astrofotky.cz/pavelpech
Copyright: Pavel Pech

Desert Draconids
by: Sean Parker Photography

The Draconids Meteor Shower was short lived in Tucson tonight as we only had about 70 minutes of clear skies to the north. Fortunately, I was still able to capture a few during my timelapse sequence! I picked out 5 frames that had meteors in them and composed them into a single image. I lit up the foreground using my headlamp for my final exposure to show some fall color that is beginning to show on cacti in the Sonoran Desert. The orange glow you see over the mountains is light pollution coming from PHX which is about 113 miles away.

Sharing is appreciated!

Photo Details:
Canon 5D MK II
Canon 16-35MM F/4
ISO 1000 for 30 seconds

Rolando Ligustri wrote: Wide field of Comet ISON C/2012 S1 on October 5rd, you can see the coma gaseous

link for high res, http://www.astrobin.com/58893/

Copyright: André van der Hoeven/Michael van Doorn

Full resolution

Recently I have teamed up with Michael van Doorn to make some imagery of M33. Michael uses a Celestron C11 with Hyperstar at f/2. This setup has a focal length of about 560mm and so does give a wide field with a high sensitivity.

We decided to combine the RGB and Ha from the Hyperstar with the resolution and detail of the TEC140 that I use.



The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light years (ly) from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598, and is sometimes informally referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy, a nickname it shares with Messier 101. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy and about 30 other smaller galaxies. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye.



In the end we had the following exposures:

TEC-140@f7/QSI-583ws: Luminance 74 x 300s
Hyperstar C11@f2/SXVR-H18 RGB: 30 x 60s (each) Ha: 60 x 200s
Total exposure time: 11h

Sky Sentinel Points to the Center of Our Galaxy
Copyright: Brian Ottum
http://www.astrobin.com/59428/ This is the view of our galaxy from one of the "last great sanctuaries of natural darkness," Bryce Canyon National Park. Taken down on the Navajo Trail, the stone spire called "The Sentinel" points almost exactly to the very center of the Milky Way. Shot June 10, 2013. Just two frames: one seven minute shot of the rocks, one seven minute shot of the sky (with the motor drive on). Combined in Photoshop. Canon 5D MarkIII (mod) with stock 24-105mm zoom @ 24mm. ISO 3200. Yep, it's DARK there!

A Bowl of Night

This is a 90 segment mosaic covering approximately 30-degrees of sky centered on the brightest and most complex portions of the Milky Way.
Remotely imaged from Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia.
Each segment is a 1 hour exposure
For a full native resolution pan and zoom capability, please go the Gigapan viewer for this image found at: http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/141922

Nice, John! Now you just need to do it at least two more times for a color image. How does a few more weeks in the outback sound?